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All people are insane, he said. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.
Kurt Vonnegut
I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.
Albert Camus
There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.
Mark Twain
Why so many of us a million years ago purposely knocked out major chunks of our brains with alcohol from time to time remains an interesting mystery. It may be we were trying to to give evolution a shove in the right direction -- in the direction of smaller brains.
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.
Christopher Hitchens
Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
Plato
Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.
Jodi Picoult
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people, troubles will be coming from within and without. America cannot smile away their Negro problem nor Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are cosmic laws.
Albert Einstein
It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility. You can try to stop time, but it's a complete waste of energy.
Paulo Coelho
None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.
Thomas Jefferson
It can be said of him, when he departed he took a man's life along with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of time.
Thomas Carlyle
All the time that he can spare from the adornment of his person, he devotes to the neglect of his duties.
Bertrand Russell
When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time.
Leo Tolstoy
Here's my throat. I carry no weapon. You could have killed me at any time, even when I knew you were my enemy. Why did you need to deceive me into trusting you first? Were you afraid that death wouldn't bother me enough, unless I felt betrayed?
Orson Scott Card
Man is not a Yahoo, but he is rather like a Yahoo and needs to be reminded of it from time to time.
George Orwell
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I staggered into a Manchester bar late one night on a tour and the waitress said You look as if you need a Screaming Orgasm. At the time this was the last thing on my mind...
Terry Pratchett
Not to the extent of throwing up my hands and saying, Well, it's all over. No. I think whichever generation and at whatever time, when the time comes, the generation that is there, I think will have to go on doing what they believe is right.
Ronald Reagan
